Large and imposing, with dark red hair, she pays no attention to her family or to the rest of Gormenghast. His only escape is reading in his library. He is a melancholy man who feels shackled by his duties as Earl, although he never questions them. The Groan family is headed by Lord Sepulchrave, the seventy-sixth Earl of Groan. The book is set in the huge castle of Gormenghast, a vast landscape of crumbling towers and ivy-filled quadrangles that has for centuries been the hereditary residence of the Groan family and with them a legion of servants. The books have been translated into over twenty languages. Gormenghast is often credited as the first fantasy of manners novel. Literary critic Harold Bloom has praised the series as the best fantasy novels of the twentieth century and one of the greatest sequences in modern world literature. The series has been included in Fantasy: The 100 Best Books, Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels and 100 Must Read Fantasy Novels as one of the greatest fantasy works of the twentieth century. The series has received widespread acclaim from the speculative fiction community and mainstream literary critics - Harold Bloom argues that it is a more accomplished work than the contemporary and better-known The Lord of the Rings. After it was discovered by their family, it was published in 2009.Īlthough the first two instalments do not contain any overtly fantastical elements, Gormenghast is almost unanimously categorised as fantasy because of the atmosphere and pseudo-medieval setting. Originally conceived as a single on-going novel, the series was ended by Peake’s death and comprises three novels: Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959), and a novella, Boy in Darkness (1956), whose canonical status is debated. Peake was writing a fourth novel, Titus Awakes, at the time of his death in 1968 the book was later completed by Peake’s widow Maeve Gilmore in the early 1970s.
Gormenghast is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure. It is the first novel in the Gormenghast series. Red grained leather spine with gilt banding and title. Memoir - Biography & Autobiography Books (413).Geography, Geology & Natural Capital Books (133).
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